Vocabulary
any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).
What is a continent?
flat, two-dimensional representation of physical space.
What is a map?
This type of map is shaped like a sphere.
What is a globe?
The largest continent on Earth, containing countries like China, Russia, and India.
What is Asia?
What type of sentence is the following?
"I hate Mr. Bates class, he is so mean!"
What is exclamatory?
a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.
What is transporting or transportation?
A map that focuses on the physical characteristics of the earth.
What is a physical map?
the meridian (a line of longitude) set at 0 degrees, serving as the reference point for measuring longitude east and west around the Earth
What is the prime meridian?
The only continent that is also its own country.
What is Australia?
What type of sentence is the following?
"I didn't complete the homework for ELA."
What is declarative?
the vertical height of a point, surface, or object relative to a mean sea level (MSL)
What is elevation?
a box on a map that explains the meaning of symbols, colors, and lines used to represent features like roads, mountains, or cities
What is a key or legend?
an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
What is the equator?
This continent is where we live, contains the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is North America?
What type of sentence is the following?
"Where are you going after school today?"
What is Interrogative?
the exact position of a place on the Earth's surface, identified by a specific pair of coordinates, usually latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
a map that shows the boundaries defining countries and their districts, such as states, provinces, counties, and cites.
What is a political map?
a geographical coordinate that measures an angular distance, north or south, from the Equator, ranging from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the North and South Poles (Lines running horizontally)
What is latitude?
This continent is between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, and the majority of it exists south of the equator.
What is South America?
What type of sentence is the following?
"Clean up your table and get ready to go."
What is imperative?
describing the position of a place by comparing it to other known locations, features, or landmarks, using terms of direction, distance, or time
What is Relative Location?
a map that shows information about a special attribute within a geographic area.
What is a thematic map?
an angular distance, measured in degrees, east or west of the Prime Meridian - Lines running vertically
What is longitude?
This continent is home to the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Greece. It is directly touching the Mediterranean sea,
What is Europe?
What kind of term is the word "because" in the following sentence?
"We study geography because we need to know how to navigate our world."
What is a conjunction?